Collaged

 

A public holiday, finally time to deal to some of the stack of pictures waiting to go into my inspiration book!  These are some of the images I've been collecting to inspire me:

 
 I see there's a bit of a bird theme going on as per usual!

 And even an Easter bunny.  A very happy Easter to you!

Collage

I made this collage the other day from cut up magazines, an old musical score, some watercolours and ink.  It's all stuck together on a piece of watercolour paper.  I would really love to have a spotty black and white rabbit like that one day, preferably one like this that's the size of a small dog!

My creative space: collage

I've had Jeannie Baker's wonderful picture book Millicent out of the library (how could I resist with that name?) and it has inspired me to do some collage. I was lucky enough to see one of her dioramas at a children's book illustration exhibition I went to in Melbourne last year - it was one of the illustrations from The Hidden Forest.

I had a whole lot of old magazines sitting around so I chopped them up and made these funny ladies, with some ink drawing and watercolour to finish them off. They're stuck onto watercolour paper backgrounds.





It's been a bit like playing paper dolls...today they even tried on each other's clothes!
I've now got a collage envelope in my art supplies chest of drawers and plans to make a whole lot more collages!

How about you, what have you been making? For more creative spaces head on over to the "our creative spaces" blog.

Happy Thursday!